The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-08-30


Vercingetorlx, was an Auverquat,
and defended his mountain heath
against Julius Caesar. His descen-
dants to-day are not so bellicose,
The mountaineers detest the con-
scription, not a popular institution
anywhere, and are popularity said,
only make good soldiers after three
desertions. They emigrate to Paris !
where they have monopoly as
hewers of wood and drawers of
water. They recruit the guild of
chestnut roasters, coal and wood
men and water dealers. Only think |
of men immigrating 240 miles to
sell the water of the Seine to Pari-
SLAMS.
Like all mountaineers the Auver-
quats are clannish, they are the
Turks head for citizens, who accuse
them of being so economical as to
turn their clothes three times; to
never marry except on fast day, to
save the expense of feast of fat Z
things, and never to wash them
selves-black faces being an here
ditary feature. But Louis XIV.
only took one bath in his life. After
making their fortune in Paris they
return to their native hamlets to
spend it; they suffer from nostalgia
like Swiss, and the bourree and
the RAM DIES Vuches form the
"Home Sweet Home" for bath.
The Auverquats give their annual
ball Just like an embassy that has
Just now taken place. 1t is an ex-
elusive as an Almacks in the sense,
that only their own kith and kin are
admitted. Imagine a long she'd
like hall, Invested of all furniture,
save an empty packing case on
which the orchestra is seated, and
represented by the player OF the
musette or bag-pipes. When there
: is no longer a puff left in him, the
company, coal men, water carriers,
rag pickers, domestices, etc., sing
like Spaniards till he regains breath.
The men wear the red night cap,
or the broad-brim wide-awake, with
! velvet stramers, to which are at
i tached leaden medals Of the Virgin
and her Son; jacket, blue serge and
' bone or pearl button, knee breeches
and woollen CATERS. Men ano
women alike wear wooden shoes
S one of which would suffice for
e floating cradle for Moses. The
. women wear q bistre or blue colore6
7 robe, tucked over jupon of brigh
,, colored stripes, the corsage is com
u posed of two pieces of velvet bu
n straw and trimmed with velvet, o
" better cap with studding-sail
IL strings. The music strikes up, TIN
L men advance and recede, thel
s. change partners, crack fingers
o scream, but above all thunder tn
z floor. Yet it is all serious, lurch'
u and never obscene. | do not know
c why the authorities compel tn
$ bourree to be danced within an en-
o closure, as if it were politlca
}, meeting. The women never speal
IL to the men, and when tired, drol
/ out for a repose, lean against tn
5 wall or retire to a neighborlng tol
Y room for seat and drink. Thu
. men wear a clasp knife like a sailor
u fastened with copper chain to tn
- vest. Ordinarily, when two AnveI
u quats disagree, they have a prelimi
+ nary out in mutual olympian abuse
NJ On Sunday they manage to meet
ia an uufrcquented lane and alone
le They deposit their knives, spit o
Is the ground as evidence that the
a will adapt no ruse, will abstain frol
y injurying the legs, and then slat
le each other till tired. Outside Clel
u mont there is dangerous defil
+ called the Soules, it is situated be
70 tween two desolate hills; it is ther
le that an Auverquat intimates to
&c capulet he must expect the applies
a. ton of the winding up act. Ill
e' number of cairu-crosses attest til
IL peculiar kind of work and labC
IL done. If Boulanger could Undue
c his home enemies to picnic in thi
glencoe glen. Perhaps they wouI
ed not reviendront.
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